PRIMULA. 



shaped), the upstanding scapes, and the stout well -furnished graceful 

 heads of blossom, which in P. Forrest ii are smaller, more numerous, 

 of a fiery golden-yellow, and entrancingly delicious perfume. It will 

 come to its right place hi our estimation when we have forgotton 

 the exaggerated clamours of its mtroduction, and forgiven the 

 disappointments into which it led us with its apparently hearty 

 habit and its secret valetudinarianism. 



P. x Forsteri. Seo under P. x Steinii. 



P. Fortitnei is a prett}-ish little Chinese species, recalling P.farinosa 

 in appearance. It has often been in cultivation but is not hardy. 



P. Franchetii is the rarest and least known of the six species 

 at present under the leadership of P. Elwesiana. It has distinct 

 Gloxinias, largo and long and wide and lonely, of violet -purple ; 

 and P. Engleri comes close beneath it, if not actually the same 

 thing. 



P. frondosa is very welcome by now in all our gardens, though 

 for long it has lain under the reproach of being wrongly named. Now, 

 however, it has been cleared by the discovery that the original types 

 in the Herbarium are mealy, like the garden plant, whereas Pax had 

 declared true P. frondosa, Janka, to be destitute of powder. In effect 

 P. frondosa is incomparably the most valuable garden species we have 

 in the kindred of P . farinosa. Of this it lacks not only the daintiness 

 and charm, but also the mimncss of temper; it is a robust cabbagy little 

 thing, like a large coarse Farinosa, with a dense coating of white 

 meal on the under-side of the crinkled grey leaves, and countless 

 scapes carrying blossoms no bigger than in P. farinosa, but more 

 numerous, in looser heads, and of a rather harsher pink. P. frondosa 

 comes from Northern Thrace, where it lives in cool corners of the 

 mountains, wet with the melting snow. In spite of this, however, it 

 grows freely in any light soil in any open place of any garden, seeds 

 itself freely all over the place, and only seems to dread excess of 

 moisture in whiter. 



P.xFumana. — Yet another false name of Gusmus for P.xFac- 

 chinii, q.v. 



P. Gaignepainii = P. he uchen folia, q.v. 



P. (jaisbergensis. — Though I have never yet seen this name in a 

 list, there is no knowing what iniquity may not some day occur. So 

 it may as well be recorded that this is a cowslip-hybrid from Lower 

 Austria. 



P. Oambeliana tnusl indeed be a most lovely little gem, closely 

 akin to P. rotundifolia, but differing in its larger flowers and glabrous 

 inflorescences. Ii is of tiny stature, with rounded, serrate, stalked 



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